Cassini Completes 20-Year Mission With Plunge Into Saturn

16/09/2017

The confirmation of NASA'sCassini's death came around 7:55 AM EDT when the radio signals from the spacecraft went flat and the probe fell silent.

"There are worldwide treaties that require that we can't just leave a derelict spacecraft in orbit around a planet like Saturn, which has prebiotic moons", said Maize. It unveiled moonlets embedded in the rings.

No spacecraft has ever ventured so close to the planet before.

In its final moments, Cassini used the last of its fuel to fight against Saturn's atmosphere in an effort to keep its antenna pointed toward Earth for as long as possible.

Three other spacecraft have flown by Saturn - Pioneer 11 in 1979, followed by Voyager 1 and 2 in the 1980s. In 1997 #NASA launched the #Cassini Huygens Probe to get a close-up look at the planet #Saturn. The spacecraft arrived at Saturn in 2004.

MOONS: Saturn has 62 known moons, including six discovered by Cassini.

"So we actually know a great deal about what the inside of Enceladus is made of because we are able to analyse the dust probes". Titan is mostly made up of methane lakes, while Encleadus has water streaming in the south pole. "For 13 years we have been running a marathon of scientific discovery, and we are on the last lap", she said early Friday.

Enceladus, an icy moon, is believed to have vast, potentially warm oceans beneath the surface with evidence suggesting numerous building blocks necessary for life may also exist.

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